New York

Birds of the Coast Have a Friend in NOAA

The Takeaway: At a critical time for many species, NOAA collaborates with partners to protect coastal bird habitats and populations.

Blue Plan Maximizes Coastal Coordination, Minimizes Conflict

The Takeaway: This inventory of the natural resources and uses of the Long Island Sound represents a guide for the future.

Citizen Scientists Catch Eels—and Valuable Data

The Takeaway: Over 700 people participate in this catch, count, and release effort. Data collected helps further our understanding of habitat losses or gains, shifts in the food web, and other ecosystem changes.

Environmental Educators Tailor Lessons to Diverse Student Needs

The Takeaway: Students of the coast love to learn when educators reach them where they are—whether that’s online, in the field, or through the wisdom of their own culture and stewardship traditions.

Estuary Education Goes Virtual

The Takeaway: NOAA’s National Estuarine Research Reserve System provides online tours, activity books, and more to teachers and students.

First-Ever National Marsh Assessment Tool

The Takeaway: Research reserves determine methodology for calculating sea level rise impact on the marsh and test it in 16 locations. Methodology standardizes the effort and creates a national approach.

Grant Helps Turn Rochester Lot into Great Lakes Tourism Destination

The Takeaway: A new marina bringing hundreds of new jobs and millions into the local economy was made possible by a grant and technical assistance from the New York Coastal Zone Management Program.

Great Lakes Shoreline Is Deteriorating—and NOAA Is Hard at Work on Restoration

The Takeaway: This shoreline report, co-authored by a Digital Coast scientist, makes plain the critical importance of NOAA’s nature-based restoration projects in the Great Lakes region.

Hudson and Harbor Day Offers Hands-On Estuary Education

The Takeaway: Thousands of students equipped with waterproof waders and chemistry kits, sketch pads, and data sheets record estuary wonders with the help of New York’s Hudson River Research Reserve.

Lifesaving Beach Initiative Reaches More than a Million

The Takeaway: NOAA and Wisconsin's coastal program deliver life jackets and a social media campaign.

NOAA Blue Carbon Enterprises Lessen Climate Change Damage

The Takeaway: Coastal wetlands research, restoration, tools, data, workshops, and partners—NOAA brings every blue carbon asset to the fight against climate-change-related hazards and harm.

NOAA Funding Benefits Massive Flood-Control Initiative

The Takeaway: A NOAA grant was used to assess natural infrastructure performance after Hurricane Sandy. Also developed: a web-based tool used to analyze natural infrastructure investments and identify parcels likely to provide the most benefits.

Native Americans Play Critical Roles in Many NOAA Projects

The Takeaway: We take a look at the great things that can happen when NOAA and Indigenous communities work together on coastal issues.

Study Shows Public Willingness to Invest in Restoration

The Takeaway: New York City households willing to pay 3.3 times more for nature-based approaches.

Superstorm Sandy NOAA Disaster Relief Appropriations

The Takeaway: The $2.4 million award emphasized partnerships and region-based, multifaceted solutions. The projects, many focused on natural infrastructure, frequently led to changes to local and state ordinances.

Tool Reduces Ocean Conflicts

The Takeaway: Offering a cohesive approach to offshore management, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan aids industries connected to offshore energy, tourism, undersea cables, and marine traffic.

Watershed Management Plan Protects Economy and Ecology

The Takeaway: Steps to improve watershed health help safeguard area’s tourism and recreation sector.